This collective research was the 34^th session of the 13^th International

Economic History Association Congress, held in

Buenos Aires, from July 22 to 26, 2002. After the fall of

Berlin Wall in 1989, we could see more clearly that European institutions

were based on the stability of the multilateral economic system.

This research project endeavours to understand the origins of

the European Economic Community (EEC), also called the Common

Market. From this insight, the main question is how the integration

of European industrial and financial markets was accomplished

during the transition period of the Common Market (1958-1968).

How did the Common Market work ? From the contributions, we

have an overview of Members States of the EEC (Germany and Italy),

EFTA members (Great-Britain and Sweden), an OECE member

(Spain), an approach to both the European capital market and to

European Monetary Integration, and some reflections with regards

to the concept of stability and to the realisation of the Common

Market. In the years, from 1958 to 1968, would Europe allow the

initialization of globalisation ?